skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems unlikely that humanity will go extinct. Even in the case of a massive population crash, there would be many "islands" of communities and all of them would still have quite a few local technologies such as knives and whatever else they can make like basic wheels.
Yeah, did the same for my SMTP config way back. Don't think my family users have managed to get their head around it yet though.

> to avoid "why is my business name in your email?" questions, I rot13 it.

That's a neat idea.
Could you please elaborate on _screwy Linux support_ ? I use Linux exclusively and was planning to buy a Thinkpad.
I'm not sure how a simplified simulation indicates anything. You have to assume it represents reality, but how is that assumption justified?
why do you think that it would be lightweight compared to (co)Lima? it's only being done on iOS because Apple won't let anybody do any better. Apple Silicon mac's have far better options available
Isn’t Musk an unelected part of the US government now?

He’s also talking about interfering in my country by giving huge sums of money to a wacky Spode-a-like conman that’s already taken billions out of our economy.

To my mind we should be skeptical of all foreign interference no matter where it comes from.
Seems like they were bitten by repair costs according to the article. Which might be due to them being relatively new, crash repairers being unwilling to work on EVs (battery), EV crashes resulting in more severe body damage due to increased weight, etc. not to mention batteries
It replicates the browser at the HTTP/SSL level, not TCP. From what I know this is good enough to bypass cloudflare's bot detection.
That is really neat. I had so many tiny use cases in my previous companies that could be solved by just a simple UI like this one. If you combine that with things like s3 static websites, it could be a beast that replaces some long-forgotten CMS solutions.
Using a smartphone isn't "computing" in the same sense as programmers using a laptop for programming. Neither is it in the same sense as writers using a laptop for writing.

Consider: Some devices are consume-only (e.g. Kindle, original iPod); some devices are consume-heavy, create-light (modern iPhone or Android smartphones); some devices are consume-light, create-heavy (modern programmer laptops); some devices are create-only (e.g. typewriters, or modern alternative experiments like Freewrite).

If you only use the consume-only or consume-heavy devices, you're not "computing" in any creative sense. In the same way, you usually aren't writing in any creative sense if you only carry books (or a Kindle) in your backpack and read all day.

Most people spend weeks or months per year "consuming content with a computing device" while not creating a single thing with that computing device. Some of that is communication, like text and group chat messages. But quite a lot of it is short-form content that is passively delivered to eyeballs and ears.

Either way, this isn't creative computing. It may not even be deep content consumption. The typical and popular content doesn't resemble books. There is a widespread and population-wide decline in deep reading as short-form video rises and app notifications flit users from smartphone app to app. You have to be very intentional to even wrangle a smartphone media diet that leaves the space for deep reading. To escape the trap, most find the need to put the smartphone away and pick up a device with different affordances (a Kindle to deep read, or a laptop to code or write, as examples).

Even if you manage to escape attention farming, due to the design of smartphones as omnipresent devices (on-screen keyboards, touch screens, cellular data plans), creativity will still usually be out of the question for the vast majority of users. For that, you usually need to simply put the smartphone away. I personally find that to do creative computing I need a device with a physical keyboard, a mouse-equivalent, and, optionally: a speedy wired/wifi connection and a large monitor on a comfortable desk in a quiet workspace.

See also "Putting Your Media on a Diet":

https://amontalenti.com/2024/01/31/media-diet

And also "The smartphone app audit":

https://amontalenti.com/2024/03/26/the-smartphone-app-audit
I just got a new iPhone two weeks ago (corporate mandated:(.

I don't recall messages, photos, apple maps, notes, camera, calendar etc asking me detailed permissions. I think health did ask for some.

Installing equivalent Facebook messenger, Google photos, Google calendar, etc also of course did.

(Greediest award goes to whatsapp which basically doesn't work unless you grant it full access to contacts boo)
Ironically Lemuroid doesn't work on Android 8 due to SAF.
> I don't think you can really decide whether something is a useful signal or not. I don't and can't assume anything about an individual because they follow Evil McBaddington.

Maybe I misunderstood your comment, but isn’t that exactly the opposite of what you’re saying here?

> Who a person follows is a pretty strong signal of their values

If your position is closer to “on average, people who follow other people tend to be more aligned with the people they follow”, I’d probably agree. But this is a vastly different statement than “following someone strongly indicates endorsement”.

> I see this "scale invariant fallacy" all the time with programmers.

I think it’s problematic to bring too much of an engineering mindset to a social issue like this. Algorithms can be cleanly and rigidly defined. Social issues tend to be messy and complicated.

In terms of pure utility, it may be true that blocking people based on who they follow results in a clean feed at a low (effort) cost. But perpetuating the idea that following someone equals endorsement has longer term social costs and gets into dystopian territory pretty quickly, and depending on why someone is using social media, the impact of entirely excluding the group of people that “follow but disagree” is likely not small. If you’re on there for cat memes, probably not a big deal. If you’re trying to stay informed or be politically active, probably a bigger deal.

And regardless of use case, believing things about other people reflexively based on something like follow status is not a healthy place for society to be. Most people do not appreciate the nuance of what you’re describing as “scale invariant fallacy”.

My biggest issue here is the framing and the questionable/harmful conclusions that can be derived from it.
While what you say is true now, in the distant past in all the cultures that had celebrations or holidays around this time of the year their origin had been purely astronomical, in celebrations of the Winter Solstice.

The reinterpretations of the Solstice celebrations to fit in various religions and the shift in the calendar from the true astronomical event have occurred much later.

By the time of Julius Cesar, after his calendar reform, the Winter Solstice occurred on the 25th of December, which is the reason for having Christmas on this day. The reason why Christmas is now shifted by 3 days from the solstice is that the Gregorian calendar reform has not restored the calendar of the time corresponding to the start of the Christian era, but the calendar of the 4th century (when the procedure for selecting the date for Easter has been established), and the calendar of the 4th century was shifted by these 3 days.

Before Julius Cesar, the Roman calendar shifted a lot from year to year in comparison with the astronomical calendar. It is likely that when first established, the 1st of March (their New Year) of the Roman calendar occurred on the Spring Equinox, but then it has drifted a lot. After the Julian calendar reform, the solstices and equinoxes occurred around the 25th of their months, then they have drifted away until the Gregorian reform has set them around the 22th of their months.
I would say there's an anti-human sentiment from big tech. EU often passes regulations to protect the population, and these thwart huge short-term gains that big tech loves to grab at the expense of all of society.

> Are these criticisms fair

Of course they're not. Big tech is just about maximizing one single variable, technological growth, and they should be crushed.
Rebelle is very good. It’s fast, work fine at high resolution and so on.
Less feature rich than painter (but that’s a good thing)

What’s still missing : the proper feel for dry materials (like charcoal) and a deep integration with the surface of the support. Right now it’s more or less a light depth map - nothing as gritty as wood, harsh paper (or even cloud ones)

My favorite at the moment.

And yeah, color mixing has been very good for a while there.
The latter one shows your password in the process listing.
There's also the Council of Europe, which has an almost identical flag as the EU but is completely unrelated to it. Not to be confused with the European Council, one of the ruling bodies of the EU.
AI language model runs on a Windows 98 system with Pentium II and 128MB of RAM
When you first set up an iPhone (and other hardware like AirPods, for example) you are asked whether to share anonymized usage data with Apple. Saying "No" at that screen turns off a whole swath of data collection.

I wonder what specific examples you are aware of that are not disabled in this manner?
Here in Norway a fire department just spent $20k to chop one foot off their boat[1], as it was over some new limit which required significantly more stringent certification from the operators.

The gov't stance was basically that there has to be a limit and if you allow for exceptions then how does one decide what's allowed and what's not. Is one inch above ok? One foot? Three feet?

Since in this case there's two parties involved, I guess the law could have been written such that if one is below 18 then it's allowed if the age difference between them is less than say 6 months or something. But from what I can gather Dubai is quite strict with moral laws, so probably not something they would consider appropriate.

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/vestfoldogtelemark/nye-regler-forte-til-a...
The linear functions/SMC work is really cool, but I am surprised to see the author calling it more mature than the compiling to CCCs work. The linear-smc library hasn't had an upload in a while, and it's currently missing any haddocks beyond the extracted type signatures. It's also a shame that it had to build its own typeclass for monoidal categories instead of using the one in https://hackage.haskell.org/package/categories .

Meanwhile KittyHawk did actually use the compile-to-CCCs work to compile Haskell to C in https://github.com/sellout/compiling-anything-to-categories and someone from there talks about it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUBj8NW7uMA

I think the linear-smc work is more exciting and I hope it matures with a bit more elbow grease. There was an ICFP talk that accompanied the linked paper ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90OJz0QE4qE ) and monoidal categories can model lots of "boxes and wires" things. Linear functions potentially give you a much more ergonomic DSL for building up those boxes-and-wires models, and in a way that lets you write abstractions that work over any model.
Completely Agree. I would appreciate it if you could add your ideas as an issue here: https://github.com/rohitg00/s3-file-share-for-free/issues
You're talking about GA flights, not commercial ones, right? I do not believe that a gear-up landing occurs once a day on average in commercial airliners.
"Every user would check that option" is obviously incorrect. When given the option not to share information, a great deal choose not to. I won't pull a percentage out of thin air, but peoples tendency towards "deny" when given the option is the reason for a lot of the dark patterns that exist (e.g. spamming address book permission dialogs, non-compliant cookie dialogs) and for spying as much as possible without permission. Asking permission for things that might be considered invasive is still the ethical thing to do, and in the early days of computing before the profit motive became overwhelming, developers tended to do the ethical thing, unlike today.
I recently used ja3proxy, which uses utls for the impersonation. It exposes an HTTP proxy that you can use with any regular HTTP client (unmodified curl, python, etc.) and wraps it in a TLS client fingerprint of your choice. Although I don't think it does anything special for http/2, which curl-impersonate does advertise support for.

https://github.com/LyleMi/ja3proxy

https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls
Some people think it’s fun.
In a first, surgical robots learned tasks by watching videos
Hey Abishek I really did not mean to derail the comments with my offhand observation. I actually really liked the attribution and it did not strike me as a (as I've come to learn the term) "land acknowledgement". It came across as sincere.

Besides I don't want a land acknowledgement, I want a statue!!
Try the web version of Readest now at https://web.readest.com
I'm noticing here that people are giving it the college try of insisting that email domains are "too confusing". I think the further down this rabbit hole we go, the more equivocal one has to be about how large percentage of the population that actually is.

I work at a company that relies on engagement with customers over email I'm sure plenty of other people here do as well, and whatever people's confusion with email, somehow they figure it out when they need to and the world seems to keep turning.

At some point this conversation is no longer about the specifics of Mastodon or BlueSky, it's just general information literacy and functional literacy.

Hilariously, arguments of the form "what if people do it wrong" like this were made even for the introduction of calculators. I think it's better understood as an ordinary rite of passage than the specific identification of a genuine problem.
"...but as you can see, there is not a single mitigation that Apple implemented to detect commercial spyware samples on the device"
These goons that deal in the spy ware market are actually under the auspices of state.

The state is rotten to the core.

I don't even blame them. The real problem is the lack of philosophy and ethical standards in the tech industry.

Computer Technology is so shallow. Apple for example talks about being a proponent of privacy and at the same time the M1 Computers have built-in terrible spyware that cannot be removed (Apple made sure of this).

Every time I talk about this I am labelled as paranoid or sometimes "stupid". Alot of people simply rationalize this built in spying as "good".

The bitter truth is that we made our bed. Now we have to sleep in it.
Clearly much better than a tent.
I had to contact someone in Europe so I started using WhatsApp. It does work without granting access to contacts, but it seems I can't even assign a name to a number without the contacts permission, so thousands of messages later the contact is still a bare number. Really scummy behavior. I probably would have caved if I had a number of contacts. And no iPad app, wtf.
Everyone wants more access to your (i)Phone
From my time with optics this seems the most likely setup. Getting good optical efficiency out of the setup might take some cleverness though - ideally you're not dumping loads of light that are "out of frame" for one sensor.

The other option is concentric optics with a pick out mirror for the central light path. Bit harder to make but you get more flexibility re: how much of your light collecting area gets split to which sensor.
Not sure about “golf 5” but I have a Mk.7 Golf from 2014 and it’s an amazing car.

There’s no telemetry left in it (3G was turned iff years ago).

It has all the safety features.

It regularly gets 60 something MPG (Imperial).

The Adaptive Cruise Control is all the self driving I need.

It’s great.
I feel, intuitively, that they might make sense if they pay attention to Bluesky.

The general tenor of these postings is "Bluesky will turn to shit because […explanation…]", where the explanation ignores the work done by the Bluesky team. The authors write as though the Bluesky team has never heard about enshittification, or hasn't thought about it or about how to cope. That's unreal, and an unreal premise never leads to insightful conclusions.
Maybe the title needs to be edited to "unsafe Rust".
Everything I wrote is true even if Israel does annex all of Gaza and the West Bank, which is the only territorial claims that some extremist Israelis make. Extremists who unfortunately wield far more influence than they should, given their lack of support among the populace. (And to be clear, I think the entire settlement project is terrible and corrosive to Israel, and should be stopped and rolled back at once.) The majority of Israel doesn't care about taking the WB and Gaza - they only care about security, and are (very justifiably) afraid of a Palestinian state on Israel's border.

I don't think Israel's leader believes in expanding, btw - he only wants one thing, his own political survival. Everything else is secondary.

> It doesn’t matter what size Israel is. It has a super equipped army unlike any other country in the region and its population is growing while many countries around it are failed/fragile states (eg syria and Lebanon and sort of Egypt.).

First, it does matter what size Israel is. If you are claiming that Israel is expansionist, but it makes up literally a tiny blip on the map, then I think that's pretty relevant.

Secondly, I don't think the fact that its population is growing is relevant to this discussion? How does that matter? If you're saying that Israel is more succesfull than most of its neighbors, I agree, but not sure why you think it's relevant, or a mark against Israel?
GP’s comment? It’s predicated on separating “high chronic disease burden” from “poor healthcare system performance.”

I don’t think this is a broadly held belief, I think it’s the “eeehhrm actually…” contrarian belief that’s trying to discredit the consensus view that our healthcare system gets very poor results for the money. So it shows up in places like this exact HN thread.
Related, as solstice has latin roots and perihelium greek: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word

The section with english examples looks especially interesting.
Needlessly complex, and machine vision camera users don't like the ambiguity that comes with ML processing on the frontend of their own stuff.
This is asking for trouble when someone accidentally doesn't provide and fails to realize, or deliberately doesn't and have forgotten the choice later on when they may want to.
as a person working in consulting for a few years now, i have to say - i am not surprised. at all. neither the negligence wrt to data protection laws as well as regarding it security. it's all just a big show with fancy charts showing how smart a solution will be. in the end nowadays it is often implemented by folks who barely speak an intelligible version of english (and certainly not german). i probably wouldn't be as frustrated about this if i was at least among the chosen ones benefiting financially of this bloated nonsense.
Isn't Boeing also involved in the maintenance part?
I am with an accounting firm and if u need any help will be happy to provide that.
> Israel's map has only grown in size from 1949 until today.

1. That's a very misleading talking point. Yes, technically growing from 0.09% of the middle east to 0.1% of the ME would be considering growth, but definitely not the kind of growth that would categorize any country as expansionist to any normal observer.

2. It's not even true! Israel captured and held the Sinai peninsula, which is 4 times the size of Israel IIRC, and then gave it back in exchange for peace. So the "expansionist" country that is so anti-peace, according to some people, and that might have designs on invading Egypt next, actually gave back territory that is 4 times the size of its own territories, for peace, with Egypt.
But that is the point! Get rid of everyone who wasn't friendly/under control, who could match it. Thus achieving worldwide democracy for all nations who could support it immediately, and unlimited time to get everyone who can't, prepared (with potentially unlimited violence applied to force them to). Achieve a sustainable hegemony.
Living on the streets is one very visible form of homelessness; your numbers are apples to oranges.

LA is also an order of magnitude bigger than Barcelona, so absolute numbers (even if carefully only tracking people sleeping rough) are a weird point of comparison.
Considering iOS devices are locked down to hell and back and achieving reboot persistence is extremely difficult, how hard is it to extract a sample of a malware payload in memory for purpose of forensics?
Two TLS streams are never byte-identical, due to randomness inherent to the protocol.

Identical here means having the same fingerprint - i.e. you could not write a function to reliably distinguish traffic from one or the other implementation (and if you can then that's a bug).
i'm afraid ChatGPT was wrong about the asset registry. the EU parliament's tax subcommittee most definitely does want such a registry.

here [1] is a feasibility study released by the EU in 2024 re: "Feasibility study for a European asset registry in the context of the fight against money laundering and tax evasion".

[1] https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/0d8...
You are correct. The best way I've found to build electrical intuition is to build circuits and experiment with them. It takes time.
In some parallel universe, each computing device manufacturer is required by law to provide a storage so that the user can plug in their single, universal, transferrable set of security credentials (like passkeys). Instead of "many cooks" mentioned in the article, there is one standard.

I cannot bring myself to agree to any "switch to passkey" prompt from any device because I have no idea (and too tired to figure out) how and where that key will be stored, how do I deal with different devices, etc. I already have a universal solution for credentials: 1password, which is cross-platform. With Apple's keychain, and I suspect other companies' solutions, passkeys are connected to your account and at best synced between devices from the same manufacturer. But even with Apple, I can't sync stuff between my personal and work computer because they use different Apple IDs, even though the underlying true identity (me) is the same.

Like with many other solutions, the current approach with passkeys is designed for an imaginary "user in vacuum" model each company dreams about, where people are 100% into one ecosystem, forever.
I think this is why this is in truth, an aesthetic choice masquerading as a conversation about technical implementation.

I think there's no two ways around it, @stephenking.bsky.social looks better than @stephenking@mastodon.social.

Blue Sky does the names better and opts people into a default server at the moment, and I would say their desktop and mobile experience is a bit better, and that feels like they've solved something specific and technical even though, as you pointed out, the issue with domains is the same in each case.
> Most EU countries banned certain categories of weapons like cluster munitions and antipersonnel mines, and as a result were unable to provide them to Ukraine

In one word: Good.
It's not a myth. I got 2 amazing offers (one of which is now my job) via Twitter. I hope Bluesky can eventually offer the same.
One of the downsides to a mostly-closed system like Bambu, it makes adding solutions like this difficult.
It's a reasonable assumption that most women prefer to share female spaces with other women, regardless of how they look, and not with male intruders who have decided to disregard women's boundaries for their own pleasure while falsely identifying themselves as women.
Anyone know if they're doing this in Canada too?